Topic: Genetics

Disrupter - Stephen Friend

The driving force behind a genomics technology is conducting a second experiment: figuring out whether he can transplant the energy of a startup into the giant that bought his company.READ»

The Body: Bulletproof

If you want to live forever, change your skin color, or just firm up those abs from the comfort of your own couch, you might be in luck: Gene therapy is on its way--and it's coming fast.READ»

Fresh Start 2002: Roche's New Scientific Method

How does a giant pharmaceutical company reckon with genomics technology? By making a fresh start in how it recruits its scientists, manages projects, and uses computers. Here's how the Roche Group is reinventing how it invents.READ»

Are There Holes In My Genes?

A new industry promises to gauge your genetic risk of getting diseases like cancer. Our reporter takes a test.READ»

Clean coal: how to biologically convert CO2 into fuel profitably

Any carbon diet strategy would be dependent upon clean coal. Since carbon capture and storage is logistically unfeasible, I suggest promoting 4th generation fuel production: converting CO2 mined from coal-fired power plants into fuel profitably.READ»

Lost Dollars in Gene Research

Billions of R&D dollars flowed to companies promising to cure our ills. Most of those companies are now dead or forgotten.READ»

• The Gene Bubble

The Secret of Life

The mapping of the human genome, says Craig Venter, will change science, research, medicine, politics, health insurance, and the way biology looks at the last 3 billion years of evolution. And that's just the beginning.READ»

Fish on Friday: Venter Claims to Create Artificial Life

In a most extraordinary story, London's Guardian newspaper is reporting that genomics pioneer Craig Venter claims to have created "the first new artificial life form on Earth," as the Guardian puts it. The Guardian can reveal that a ...READ»

The Gene Bubble: Why We Still Aren't Disease-Free

When the human genome was first sequenced nearly a decade ago, the world lit up with talk about how new gene-specific drugs would help us cheat death. Well, the verdict is in: Keep eating those greens.READ»

Digital Matters - Issue 29

In My Humble Opinion: Genomics is the most important economic, political, and ethical issue facing mankind.READ»

Consumer Genetics Show

Genetics, this is your mainstream moment! So says conference founder and biotech entrepreneur John Boyce, who points to the rapid drop in DNA-sequencing costs and growing interest in genomics from consumer-goods manufacturers. ...READ»

If the Gene Fits ...

Future Tense: Personalized Genetic TestingREAD»

Next Stop - The 21st Century

Unit of Twenty-OneREAD»

Nanotech Invention May Be Golden Bullet for Controlling Drug Addiction

Scientists at the University of Buffalo have found a new use for nanotechnology--as an extremely precise way of delivering chemicals to the right part of the brain to combat drug addiction. And, pleasingly, the science really does ...READ»

The (Life) Science of War

Sun Tzu wrote "The Art of War." Now the threat of smallpox and other forms of bioterrorism has unleashed the next generation of conflict. Welcome to the science of war.READ»

Digital Matters - Issue 34

"A few years from now, we'll look back on dotcom mania as a model of investment sanity and prudence."READ»

Spit Party

The Fast Interview: The co-founders of 23andMe talk about mixing social media and genetics, a predisposition for Brussel sprouts, and being married to Google's Sergey Brin.READ»

• IT's Not about the Technology
• What Does Silicon Valley Want from Washington?

Digital Matters - Issue 38

"We are nearing the end of tedious, dull and small politics."READ»

Algorhythm and Blues

How Pandora's matching service cuts the chaos of digital music.READ»

Self-Confidence: Nature or Nurture?

Is self-confidence something that you're born with or is it taught and developed? It's the classic nature vs. nurture question. While current wisdom has been for some time that it's mostly nurture, there's some surprising research out that indicates we may be genetically predisposed to be self-confidentREAD»

Pop!Stars 2006

Six headliners from this year's conference.READ»

Fast Talk: Life Savers

It is the most important industry the world will ever know--keeping people alive. It's a huge undertaking by physicians, researchers, product engineers, and more. We asked some of the best: How do they save lives?READ»

Self-Confidence: Nature or Nurture?

Is self-confidence something that you're born with or is it taught and developed? It's the classic nature vs. nurture question. While current wisdom has been for some time that it's mostly nurture, there's some surprising research out that indicates we may be genetically predisposed to be self-confident.READ»

The Age of Disruption

Still not convinced that there's much "new" about the new economy? Then spend some time with Harvard's Juan Enriquez. In his new book, and in an interview, he explains how business and economics are changing -- and what it means for you.READ»

Miracle Microbes

Innovation: Synthetic malaria cure Available: 2009 In the labs of Amyris Biotechnologies, scientists are transferring genes from microbe to microbe. This molecular manipulation is the basis of synthetic biology, which ...READ»